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lts products are rattan, red kino (*) , lignum aloes, areca- and 

 eocoanuts. They use 110 copper cash, but their custom is to trade in all 

 kind of things with gold and silver. D uring the whole year the weather is 

 mostly hot and seldom cold, in winter they have no frost or snow. The 

 people rub their bodies with fragant oil. The country does not produce 

 barley , but they have rice and green and yellow peas. Their poultry , geese 

 and ducks are about the same as in China. 



They make wine from flowers, eocoanuts, penang or honey, which 

 are all intoxicating , though they nse no leaven or yeast. 



For their music they have a small guitar and small drums; slaves 

 from Pulu Conclore ( 2 ) make music for them by trampling on the ground 

 and singing. 



They write with Sanscrit-characters and the king uses his ring as a 

 seal; they know also Chinese characters and when prese]iting letters with 

 tribute they make use of them ( 3 ). 



They have made a fortified city with a wall of piled bricks, several 

 tens of li ( 4 ) in circumference , and they use palm leaves for covering their 

 houses. The people live scattered outside the town and do not pay any 

 taxes. When they have a war , they at once select a chief to lead them and 

 everybody provides his own arms and provisions. With a favourable wind 

 the distance from tliis country to Canton is twenty days. 



The king is styled Chan-pi ( 5 ) and in his country there are many 

 people whose name begin with Pu (litt. whose family name is Pu). 



O 5S 1 -§ra the Buddhist name for the red kino, made from the sap» of the Butea frondosa 

 in India. Wells Williams. Syllahic dictiouary p. 463. 



(^ ^&i "iu* ~f$L * Slaves f rom Condor e seems to have been a general name for slaves, 

 which the Malays probably got from this island and from the other islands in the south of the Chi- 

 nese sea; the dance here described is practised still now by the natives of the Natuna and Tambilan- 

 islands. 



( 3 ) It is not probable that the natives knew Chinese, but we may infer from this statement 

 that there were already Chinese established in the country, who wrote for the king the letters 

 accompanying his tribute. 



O JU , Ten li is about three miles. 



( 5 ) pÊ? JSL t Our author probably makes a mistake here. We shall see by and by that 



San-bo-tsai was for a long time the principal port on this side of the island, but that probably Pa- 

 lembang and Djambi existed long before San-bo-tsai was destroyed; we think tb at the author bas 

 heard the name of Radja Djambi, i. e. the king of Djambi, and that he has mistaken the name of 

 the country for the name of the king. 



